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That pile of chopsticks in your kitchen drawer and the trash bags full of used chopsticks at any of the Asian restaurants in Dorchester would typically end up in the waste stream. But if Savin Hill’s Elaine Chow has anything to say about that situation, those utensils could become your next kitchen table.
Unhappy with his fellow city councillors’ efforts to redraw the political boundaries of nine City Council seats, Dorchester Councillor Frank Baker plans to file his own map next week. The nine district councillors and their four at-large colleagues are facing a Nov. 7 deadline to get a map finished, a year before the 2023 municipal election. Three maps have been proposed: One
City Councillor At-Large Erin Murphy on Thursday offered a redistricting map of her own as she and her colleagues drew closer to a deadline to finish the redrawing of Boston’s political boundaries involving the nine council districts. The redrawing occurs every ten years to address population shifts and changes as outlined by the US Census. Each district in the city must have
A year ago, Ciaran Moore was a man on the go – a construction foreman who loved Irish hurling and the 12 Bens Tavern and was living in Lower Mills with his wife and fully involved in raising three active children. A violent incident in the early morning hours of Dec. 27, 2021, changed the family’s life forever – a fight in the Old Dorchester Post in Adams Village that resulted
A few stray thoughts while waiting for the first frost of the season: • By most accounts, Saturday’s ‘Open Streets’ event on Dorchester Avenue was a success. The event shut down Dot Ave to vehicular traffic from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and required even more parking restrictions for those who live along the route. But the net outcome was a positive experience, according to those who